Cove

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  • noun. A small sheltered bay in the shoreline of a sea, river, or lake.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A recess or small valley in the side of a mountain.
  • noun. A cave or cavern.
  • noun. A narrow gap or pass between hills or woods.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A concave molding.
  • noun. A concave surface forming a junction between a ceiling and a wall.
  • transitive verb. To make in an inward curving form.
  • noun. A fellow; a man.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A man; a person; a fellow: generally preceded by some adjective: as, an old cove; a rum cove; a flash cove, etc.
  • To arch over.
  • To brood, cover, or sit over.
  • noun. A small inlet, creek, or bay; a recess or nook in the shore of any considerable body of water.
  • noun. Hence A hollow, nook, or recess in a mountain, or among mountains.
  • noun. In architecture, a concavity; any kind of concave molding; the hollow of a vault.
  • noun. In ship-building, a curved or arched molding at the bottom of the taffrail. An elliptical molding above it was called the arch of the cove.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A boy or man of any age or station.
  • transitive verb. To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
  • transitive verb. a ceiling, the part of which next the wail is constructed in a cove.
  • transitive verb. a vault composed of four coves meeting in a central point, and therefore the reverse of a groined vault.
  • noun. A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.
  • noun. A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A concave molding.
  • noun. A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight.
  • transitive verb. To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A fellow; a man.
  • noun. A friend; a mate.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a small inlet
  • noun. small or narrow cave in the side of a cliff or mountain
  • Word Usage
    "I'm fishing smack in the middle of New York City, on Central Park's Loeb Lake, and this cove is a tiny pocket in this 843-acre living work of art conceived 150 years ago by the great landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cave  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Dove  Grove  Hove  Nov  Soave  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    anchorage  bay  beach  bluff  creek  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Adamite  abri  alcove  antre  apse  
    verb-form
    coved  coves  coving